The force of argument
Subtitle: essays in honor of Timothy Smiley
By: edited by Jonathan Lear and Alex Oliver.
Contributors: Smiley, T. J.; Lear, Jonathan.; Oliver, Alex.
Series: Routledge studies in contemporary philosophy -- 18
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2010
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780415801201; 9780203859810
Subjects: Logic; Philosophy, Modern -- 21st century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Philosophy in and out of the armchair / Kwame Anthony Appiah; title: Restricted quantifiers and logical theory / Thomas Baldwin; title: Logical form / James Cargile; title: The socratic Elenchus : no problem / James Doyle; title: What makes mathematics mathematics? / Ian Hacking; title: Smiley's distinction between rules of inference and rules of proof / Lloyd Humberstone; title: Relative validity and vagueness / Rosanna Keefe; title: The force of irony / Jonathan Lear; title: The matter of form : logic's beginnings / Alex Oliver; title: Abstractionist class theory : is there any such thing? / Michael Potter; title: A case of mistaken identity / Graham Priest; title: Inferential semantics for first-order logic : motivating rules of inference from rules of evaluation / Neil Tennant.